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What is ethics?

Of means and ends
Ethics is the study of how we ought to behave, and why. There are many different theories of ethics, which we briefly discuss in this article. (more...)
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Andreas Matthias

Western Ethics Theories

The Shortest Possible Overview
We examine the basic ideas behind the four main Western ethics theories: utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, social contract ethics and virtue ethics. (more...)
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Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

The unconscious forces that shape our societies
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a German social psychologist and philosopher who had enormous popular success from the 1950s all the way to the end of his life in 1980. We discuss his work and his relation to Marxism and Freud. (more...)
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Women Philosophers Throughout History

Celebrating International Women’s Day
Women philosophers: Gargi Vachaknavi, Aspasia, Ban Zhao, Hypatia of Alexandria, Rabia al-Adawiyya, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Nana Asma’u. (more...)
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Andreas Matthias

The Princess and the Soul

Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes
Descartes admired her intelligence and Leibniz stood at her deathbed, but during most of her life, she was a penniless refugee. Meet Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia. (more...)
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John Shand

Reasons and Causes

We are not as rational as we think we are
We think our beliefs and attitudes, and even our feelings and moods, are more determined by a reasoning process that brings us to them than they are. (more...)
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Louai Rahal

Kant's conception of freedom

Using reason to resist manipulation
Kant on using reason to critically examine our inclinations and uncover the forces that manipulate and misinform us. (more...)
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Miles Erickson

A Better Society?

Bonanno's utopian anarchism
Bonanno stands apart with his radical, borderline utopian critique of modern society. (more...)
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Islam in 10 Minutes

Its history and main ideas
How did Islam begin and expand, what do Muslims believe, and what does the daily practice of a Muslim believer look like? (more...)
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Thomas O. Scarborough

African Philosophy

A Personal Perspective
I married into Africa. That is, my wife is a member of a Xhosa clan – in fact, a descendant of the great King Mpondo. (more...)
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Lina Ignatova

Nothing

A short story
Nothing is ever nothing. What a paradox! Everything is something, in a way. (more...)
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The Paradox of Fiction

Why are we scared by things that don’t exist?
The paradox of fiction asks how we can experience genuine emotions for things that we know not to be real. (more...)
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Stephan Renart

The Case for Feeding the Surfers

Philippe Van Parijs’s Argument for Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income, or UBI, implies the regular, universal, unconditional transfer of an equal sum of money to all eligible citizens. (more...)
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Lina Ignatova

Meaning

A short story
Call me Gottlob. And just to make sure we don’t get off on the wrong foot, my name is indeed Gottlob. But what is the actual meaning of names? (more...)
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Peter Cave

Israel’s Attack on Gaza

Some philosophical reflections
Philosophical reflections about Israel’s response to the 7th October 2023 attack by Hamas, exposing inconsistencies, poor reasoning and immoralities, with a final touch of Kant and Nietzsche. (more...)
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The Power of Love

Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving
In his book “The Art of Loving,” psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm discusses how love is misunderstood in modern societies. (more...)
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John Shand

Art, Its Value, And How We See Ourselves

Guest article by John Shand
1. What I wish to do is to look at the value of art in the wide human cultural context, most fundamentally indeed as part of the human condition. (more...)
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Max Gottschlich

Studying Philosophy at a Time of Automated Thinking

Notes to the philosophy student
Philosophy starts by questioning what the other sciences presuppose, the assumptions of all activity, cognition, and knowledge as a whole. (more...)
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Plato’s Theory of Forms

Stepping out of the shadows and into the light
For every thing in the real world, there is a “perfect” image somewhere in the world of Forms. A perfect cat, a perfect tree, a perfect circle. (more...)
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What is a Fallacy?

How to Spot and Avoid Logical Pitfalls
A fallacy in Critical Thinking is an error in argumentation that makes an argument invalid. (more...)
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Andreas Matthias

Dan Demetriou on the Ethics of Colonial Monuments

Philosopher interviews
When is it right to remove colonial statues? When should we rewrite old books that are not politically correct any more? (more...)
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